By means, you said it DID pump down the water you poured in it, so that sugges to me that the pump does work.

Although the timer might work on some fuctions, contacts could be "burnt" or otherwise faulty on others.

I would also suspect a door switch, but if it pumps down and does the other funtions you listed, then it sounds like the door switch is fine.

Well, it could be one more thing... does the dishwasher fill with water on start?
The timer will control this action, but if its sending voltage to the solenoid, yet the solenoid is not filling, the float switch will never make. Assuming that its not a timed fill.

Just make sure the timer is sending all the voltages out to the different componests as it should. And then as it does, make sure those components start.

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Well, its still not working "properly" but if I turn off the breaker for half an hour and turn it back on, the buttons all seem to work and it will complete a cycle properly. Then, the next time we go to use, it doesn't work again. Very frustrating.

Does this help shed some light on what could be the problem?

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If the manual is telling you to kick the breaker for 30 minutes, then that suggest to me its trying to reset something (perhaps a control board)

You may have a solid state timer, and computer control board in that dishwasher.
They can be a little tougher to troubleshoot the old fashined mechanical timers, but it is possible.

These boards are normally not cheap, and I wouldn't want you to reaplce it only to find that's not the problem.

Normally when there is a board involved, the dishwasher will function until it finds a problem. Then it may complete the cycle and display an error, or stop all together.

Basically this will take line to line troubleshooting. You will need to locate a wiring diagram, then attept to turn it on, if it fails, then we must perform line to line troubleshooting to find out what the problem is.

If I had a wiring diagram I could help more, without that Im just taking stabs in the dark.

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Same thing is happening to my dishwasher, 665.15879000
I have looked around this site and seen other people fix problems with a reset. I am wondering how you resolved your problem, and if you know of a way to reset this model of dishwasher?

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Actually, what is happening with our dishwasher is a little different. It will not start, but the cancel button will begin drain, and the "pots and pans" button will light, as well as the lights for a 2, 4, or 6 hour delay. That is all. Any suggestions?

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Same thing is happening to my dishwasher, 665.15879000
I have looked around this site and seen other people fix problems with a reset. I am wondering how you resolved your problem, and if you know of a way to reset this model of dishwasher?

Thanks!

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Actually, what is happening with our dishwasher is a little different. It will not start, but the cancel button will begin drain, and the "pots and pans" button will light, as well as the lights for a 2, 4, or 6 hour delay. That is all. Any suggestions?

MY dishwasher is a kenmore also 4 years old same problem I was told they programed them to quit working after so many washes I'm inclined to believe it now guess that is why some is 4yrs old and some is 5 it depends on how often you use it as to

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To make the lock light go off hold the Air Dry or No Heat Dry for 10 seconds.

My Kenmore Elite 665.1647 won't turn start its cycle. The green light beside the Auto Mode button goes on for a minute or so when you press it, so the board is getting power, but it doesn't fill with water or anything. Very annoying. Any ideas?

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When I press the normal cycle on my kenmore the normal cycle light comes on and the not warm button lights up and is shortly followed by the lock light the lock light will stay on for about 20 sec. and then go off and this cycle keeps happening meenwhile the machine will not take in any water. This keeps happening... I have pressed the cancel/drain and it will drain

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So I have a Kenmore Quiet Guard 1 Portable dishwasher and spent hours last night reading these posts and trying to figure this out myself. I did all of the above, which I am sure work but I think when I cleaned my dishwasher out last week I must have lifted the "float" up, which is located on mine on the bottom of the dishwasher in the front right corner. It was lifted and as soon and I put it down this morning, ta da! It started working. Check out your FLOAT also.

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My kenmore ultra model665 15819992 stk 15819 serial fk 3301114 my lock light stays on for ten seconds and no other lights are all off then it starts blinking tried to hold the no heat pad button for four seconds did not work please need advice.

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@fred byrne, I had the same problem. Tried pushing all the buttons, to no avail. Finally, I turned off the circuit breaker and LEFT it off for a good hour, giving the control panel time to reset. After turning on the circuit breaker, dishwasher worked like a charm.

I have to do this now on a regular basis (my dishwasher is 8 years old), ever 5 wash cycles or so.

Sometimes, even after turning off the circuit breaker for an hour, the dishwasher won't work. Leave it alone for a day or two. Don't push ANY buttons. It should start after 48 hours -- if you can wait that long.

I did all the above and still do! Hope it works for you.

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my kenmore 165.13593K600 does absolutely nothing! Opened the door during wash cycle to add another dish and it will not run anymore! =( no lights light up at on the keyboard, any ideas as to what I did other than I killed it, it still has water in the bottom of it, like I said I just opened door to add more and poof! No more dishwasher! Please help with any ideas...

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Upload this file for instructions: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8010163/Whirlpool_Dishwasher.pdf

It is good for a few days only. Most likely you will need a meter to check it out. You might as well get used to using a meter if you want to fix anything as it is the most important instrument to learn.

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My Model 110 does the same thing, at times all lights work but Cancel and Start. Slamming the door seems to sometimes help, as does waiting... I've noticed it seems to work w/o issue when my house is cool, when it gets hot it doesn't always work.

A few Summer's ago I had to have Sears come out, the guy looked at the dishwasher, mentioned a common problem and switched out something on the board. I wish I had asked more questions.

That said, and reading the comments in this thread seems to me the solid state timer is a common culprit? I'm no electrician but I'd assume temperature could affect how it functions.

Now, where do I find a new timer and how do I swap it out?

Complete Model - Sears Kenmore Automatic Dishwasher 110.92291100

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